Building stuff and making things

Hexy the Hexapod build

I got my Hexy the hexapod kit from the kickstarter finally, maybe 6 months late. Reasonable in kickstarter terms. Anyhoo I decided to put it together last night. The build process was pretty straight forward, however towards the end when you get into like mounting the battery pack / routing wires / etc things get a little sketchy. I guess my biggest gripe right now would be with the power, I need to order some lithium/nimh cells or do a custom battery pack or something. Alkalines aren’t goint to cut it. I was a little sad not to have gotten much movement out of it. I even hooked it up to my bench power supply but it maxxed it out at 3A and still just failed.